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Adult Child

163 - Breaking The Shame: Adult Children of Sex Addicts w/ Dr. Kenneth Adams

Adult Child

Andrea

Relationships, Health & Fitness, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Specializing in emotional enmeshment, covert incest and sex addiction, Dr. Kenneth Adams is a therapist and EMDR practitioner with 40+ years of experience.

He is the author of 4 books, including A Light in the Dark: The Hidden Legacy of Adult Children of Sex Addicts, This groundbreaking book details the unique issues experienced by adult children who grew up with a sexually addicted parent, and offering a path to unburden their shameful legacy and embrace sexuality and intimacy without the intrusion or constraints from the past.

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0:00.0

As long as the abuse or neglect experienced in childhood remains buried within,

0:05.3

we recreate our family and adult relationships.

0:08.9

My name is Andrea and this is adult child. holding on two, to just let it all go.

0:23.4

What's making you slow now?

0:26.2

That it all go.

0:28.2

Welcome back to a little child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

0:35.6

Ahoy, my dear shit shows.

0:39.3

For any new listeners, my name is Andrea and I am a total shit show in case you were wondering. I am also an adult child of an alcoholic family. I'm also recovering alcoholic myself. And folks, I just, I don't know what I touched but my finger is smells like

0:55.4

ketchup right now and it made me think that I really should share my attachment

1:01.7

style condiment correlation theory because I don't think I've shared it

1:05.9

recently on the podcast now this this is a study that I've been conducting for a few years

1:11.0

now folks and I really think there's something here. I really think

1:16.0

that there's something here. So here's my theory. People who have an anxious

1:20.6

attachment style they love their fucking cond style. They love their

1:22.6

fucking condiments. They love their ketchup, they love their

1:26.7

mustard, they love all of their sauces, and then people who are avoidance, maybe a little sum, little condiment here and

1:36.8

there, but mostly they just like their shit plain.

1:40.3

And this theory is proven to be tried and true, folks.

1:43.9

I would say it has about a 92% accuracy rate.

1:48.6

I'm not sure what we do with it,

1:51.3

because maybe there's some sort of a healing method there like do we

1:56.3

force anxious people to not be able to use coniments I say hell no to that but I do think that we should start forcing

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